ad hominem

iba libra attack the argument, not the person (ok maybe the person too)

[adhominem13]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75971881

summary:

Because yesterday hadn’t ended cleanly. It hadn’t ended after they hooked up, or even with the leaving. It had ended earlier than that, on the couch, with Rozanov’s leg pressed warm and solid against his, with his hand loose and familiar at Shane’s wrist, with his lips brushing against Shane’s hair. With the sudden, bone-deep understanding that whatever this was had tipped, quietly and decisively, into something Shane didn’t know how to carry.

Going back feels like tempting fate, stepping deliberately into a place he already knows he can’t afford.

tags:

Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov

Time Loop

Emotional Hurt/Comfort

avoidant attachment meets denial bot 3000

listen. this wasn't the time loop i meant to write

but it's what i ended up with

sciencey time loop fic will have her time to shine some other day

this one is handwavey as hell

Episode: s01e04 Rose (Heated Rivalry)

ive been threatening to write a time loop au for literally every fandom ive ever been in, and hollanov is the one that finally stuck 🤷🏽‍♀️ t-minus seven hours till the next episode!! 🥳

[daleearnhardt]

alex_albon Bros before…?

[passengerprincipessa]

it’s not gay if your girlfriends are watching

[passengerprincipessa]

what is the edmonton polycule

[aomitois]

rb and tag your favorite song that's not in english, japanese or korean

[ticklefighthockey]

the real fantasy of heated rivalry isn’t that the hot cocky sex god will fall in love with the uptight socially awkward virgin… the real fantasy is that you can be sooooooo fucking annoying & avoidant & allergic to intimacy and someone who is securely attached will nevertheless doggedly pursue you, make you feel your feelings, and then marry you

[mousemannation]

as we come closer to the likely outcome i think i have figured out what i want to say about this. this being zverev winning a slam.

i understand that winning a slam comes with an amount of pedigree within tennis, and it’s an achievement that comes with a lot of publicity and lauding. on this level i understand the frustration with him winning one.

what i dont agree with is the idea that this fundamentally changes anything. zverev is good at tennis, this is not a moral judgement. he has been a serious contender for many years. as much as it feels vindicating to call him a choker, to make fun of him for not winning one- that is ultimately a selfish feeling because it doesn’t serve any purpose. and in some ways directly obfuscates and trivialises the real issue.

obviously, i don’t think making a joke here and there is necessarily wrong, but i do sometimes worry the overwhelming amount of posts treating players beating him like a game is diluting the seriousness. the posts that only ever call him the rat or another nickname, the posts congratulating people for “exterminating him”- i worry these miss the point. he isn’t some funny little issue, he’s a serial domestic abuser. whether or not a player beats him isn’t them doing a favour for women or for viewers who don’t like him, there is no morality in it.

if it’s more important for you to be able to make fun of him for not reaching some arbitrary point of success than it is for him to be recognised and face consequences for being a serial abuser than your priorities are wrong. i don’t actually think anyone is doing this on purpose, but i think it’s easy to get caught up in our own anger, our own desire to feel better short term.

the first allegations came out i believe in 2020, if zverev had won a slam before that it would not have changed the fact that he’s an abuser. if he’d won every slam since it would not change that fact. on the other hand, if he lost every slam first round it would also not change anything. the truth of it though is that he does make deep runs frequently. that’s why he’s been top 5 for so long, and him being top 5 for so long has already made him a face of men’s tennis regardless of his slam success.

no longer being able to say he’s a choker or he’s a slamless loser or whatever insult in that vein you want is not even remotely relevant when the real reason people should be upset is that he is, once again, a serial domestic abuser.

maybe flavio pulls off a miracle and he wins this one, zverev will continue to be a contender in the next and the next and the next. the issue has never been that he might win one, but that he’s able to compete at all.

[newbromantics]

if I have a penalty and you and you and you and you have a penalty. who the hell is p3

[georgegraphys]

George Russell running to the stewards (2026) — photographed by Gabriel Buoys and Sam Bagnall

[brakingpoint]

in hindsight i think max dodged a bullet getting out of there lap one

[brakingpoint]

[targetedknowledge]

[lovesicklobotomy]

[metal-autistic-coven]

Happy pride month to him

[my-dailydreams]

[oscunt]

personally my favorite thing about oscar and mark being attached to the hip when oscar clocks out of f1 is that it makes the theory that zak brown doesn't like oscar's old guard dog who bites before he barks and may or may not have rabies and has been trained to piss on zak's shoes and if he saw him in his garage one more time he was going to put him down cujo style even more believable and i think that's very neat

[redwitchrune]

halfway through obsidio. i need winifred mccall and syra boll yuri RIGJT NOW

[neenarchive]

me: you literally have a disorder. this is symptoms

me: no perhaps my soul is rotten

[icarusalchemist]

i’m re-reading illuminae again and i always get smacked in the face by just how brutal it is. by page five, you’ve already got ezra saying he was walking over the dead bodies of his classmates during the evacuation of his high school.

and one of the things i love is the ways grief is dealt with. ezra deals with his dad dying by acting like he’s still alive, just not present. one of the substitute therapists mentions how he still refers to his dad in the present tense.

then kady deals with her mom’s death by.. not talking about it. her mom dies on the copernicus when it’s nuked, and her name is buried amidst the list of copernicus casualties, but unless you know, there’s no reason to think to look for her name. but kady alludes to her mom’s death in her journal entries, when she says “there’s nothing around me that’s known anymore.” in the same entry she talks about a group counseling member who broke down with the weight of all of her family’s deaths, and kady doesn’t mention her mom. she wonders how she’ll break if the weight gets too much, mentions her cousin that died on kerenza, but not her mom, who she knew was aboard the copernicus. her mom was there, then she wasn’t. and now there’s nothing known to kady. but she still doesn’t talk about it.

[rewind-time]

Oh what nice AIDAN binary, I wonder what it mea-

OH.